The aircraft in question ... of the foot-launched Swift Light, a tailless composite ultralight with a 42-ft (13-m) wingspan that was originally designed as a hang glider. It sure looks like ...

In light of that feat ... One of America’s leading aircraft designers, Jack Northrop, showed keen interest in the Horten brothers’ flying-wing glider back in the 1930s and built flying ...

Along with Tennessee Tech, Tennessee-based ultralight aircraft company Whisper Aero ... The grant will see a Whisper Aero glider fitted with a pair of the company’s eQ250 electric-powered ...

The turbine-powered variant offers ten times the range of the original Grasshopper autonomous glider at a fraction of the ...